[NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC External Appointments for 2015

[Milton L Mueller]

I support Tapani as an NCSG EC member, I think he would do a great job. 

--MM

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> bounces at lists.ncuc.org] On Behalf Of Tapani Tarvainen
> Sent: Monday, December 22, 2014 4:29 AM
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> Subject: Re: [NCUC-DISCUSS] NCUC External Appointments for 2015
> 
> On Dec 18 12:25, William Drake (william.drake at uzh.ch) wrote:
> 
> > The new Executive Committee will meet in Washington DC on 12 January
> > prior to the Noncontracted Parties House meeting. There we will need
> > to approve a number of appointments of 2015 NCUC reps to external
> > bodies. These include:
> >
> > 2 NCUC Reps. to the NCSG Executive Committee
> >
> > The EC does admin type stuff, particularly handling new member
> > applications. Robin Gross and Milton Mueller are presently our two
> > reps. If they wish to continue for another year there’s no prohibition
> > on them doing so, and they have the knowledge and experience these
> > particular slots require. That said, other members are also invited to
> > throw their hats in the ring as well.
> 
> OK, here goes. While I'm obviously outclassed by Robin and Milton, these are
> as you say admin type positions that don't need any deep substantive
> knowledge - indeed both Robin and Milton are actually way over-qualified,
> wasting their time there.
> I think I could do it well enough.
> 
> But the reason I'd want there is that I'd like to improve member processing,
> turn NCSG member list into a proper database and automate things like
> member status check, which is now done mostly manually by the Chair (!),
> and feeding the data directly into NCUC member db (as well as NPOC if they
> want to), removing a lot of unnecessary menial work from both NCSG and
> NCUC ECs, as well as from members who now need notify changes in their
> contact information separately to SG and constituencies.
> 
> Why would I need to be in the EC to do this? Because it is much easier to
> when you are part of the process, doing it yourself.
> And even if I say so myself, I am pretty good at automating away things I'd
> otherwise be doing myself. :-)
> 
> Feel free to ask for details of what I have in mind or whatever (I'm traveling
> though and may be offline for several days at a time over the next two
> weeks).
> 
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> Tapani Tarvainen
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